Sentence examples for unproductive one from inspiring English sources

I noted to Franco that Democrats might have been suspicious of Republican efforts to "help" with the bill, since very early on in the process it was agreed that denying the President a victory on health care would help turn the Obama Presidency into an unproductive one.

Meanwhile, pastoralists perceive these strategies as relatively unproductive, one government officer noted: Pastoralists have tried many things to avoid losses but I am not sure that they have tried enough.

It was just like ending a long-standing romantic relationship that's become unhealthy and unproductive, one where you can no longer remember why -- exactly -- it was that you first hit it off but, regardless, the chemistry simply isn't there any more.

They may continue where the last Congress, a notably unproductive one, left off.

This sort of behaviour is quite typical of the World Economic Forum in Davos, and, indeed, the phrase I would use to describe this Forum was coined by the well-known academic, Elmar Altvater; he described it as a big show, and, unfortunately, a rather unproductive one.

Accept that and England could have covered Prior's position on tour with Jonny Bairstow, who remains very much the new kid on the block despite an unproductive one-day tour of India.

But let us be clear: these proposals would apply to all employees, not just lazy or unproductive ones.

Brazil's car industry is an example of this, with its newer, more efficient plants expected to drive out older, unproductive ones.

This is not a question of iron will, but about developing habits and strategies that trigger helpful processes in the unconscious, rather than unproductive ones.

Republicans, he says, live in and love export-oriented, productive industries and want to set them free, while Democrats live in and love protected, non-tradable sectors and want to use the profits from productive industries to subsidise unproductive ones.

Worst of all is this: "Productive writers can be retained and unproductive ones can be released (thanks to the web stats, this can be determined scientifically: look at a several years of click data and it will be crystal clear)." And when Blodget says "productive," he isn't talking about how many articles or words, let alone how much quality work, a writer puts out.